Hitler and his works. Members of a U.S.

Hitler and his works. Members of a U.S. Confressional committee investigating German atrocities in Europe inspect an unfinished Nazi V-2 rocket bomb in an underground factory at Nordhausen where the enemy weapons of death for Allied civilians were fashioned by dying slaves. Left to right: Representative John M. Vorys, Republican of Ohio; Representative Ed V. Izac, Democrat of California; Senator C. Wayland Brooks, Republican of Illinois; Lieutenant Colonel J.K. Beeson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Brigadier General John M. Weir, U.S. War Department representative. Troops of the First U.S. Army captured Nordhausen, a center for V-bomb production, 10 april, 1945. Hundreds of dead and dying lay in the same beds in a nearby slave camp where, according to the liberated, 9,000 lost their lives in 1944.